Getting Information About Shapes
You can get information about shapes in SketchUp, such as the shape’s area and number of sides. Just follow these steps:1. Click the Start Using SketchUp button. Click the human figure that appears in the Engineering–Feet template by default to select it and press the Delete key to delete it.
2. Draw a shape.
3. Right-click the shape and select the Entity Information menu item. When you do, you get an information box showing information about the shape, as shown in Figure 3.10.
FIGURE 3.10 Getting shape information.
4. To get information about the edge of the shape, click the Select tool in the toolbar while the Information dialog box is open, then click the edge of the shape. When you do, the information box changes, showing information about the shape’s edge, as shown in Figure 3.11.
TIP: Changing a Shape’s Size or Number of Edges
You can edit the information in a shape’s Information box, changing the shape itself. For example, you can change the number of edges a polygon has by entering a new number in the Segments box and pressing Enter.
FIGURE 3.11 Getting information about the edge of a shape.
Thanks :
Steven Holzner,
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